This online collection includes more than 3,500 scans of photographs, maps and documents relating to Amelia Earhart. There are copies of the maps that were used on her last flight, photographs she took and scans of letters she sent and received.

Number to Know

1: Amelia Earhart, who was born on this day in 1897, set all kinds of firsts, including becoming the first person to cross the U.S. in an autogyro, the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo and the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross.

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